Evolution and Natural Selection misconceptions

• Evolution is a purposeful process driven by need

• Individual organisms evolve during their lifetime

• Natural selection always produces more complex organisms

• Mutations are always harmful

• All traits are adaptations

• Bigger organisms are more evolved

• Humans evolved from modern apes

• Adaptation occurs because organisms try to survive

• Speciation happens suddenly

• Fossils represent failed evolutionary attempts

• Extinction only happens because of humans

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